Multimedia Hardware and Software

1. 4 stages in a multimedia project

1.1. Planning and Costing

1.2. Designing and Producing

1.3. Testing

1.4. Delivering

2. What You Need-Software

2.1. Text editing and word processing tools

2.2. OCR software

2.3. Painting tools

2.4. Drawing tools

2.5. 3-D modeling tools

2.6. Image editing tools

2.7. Sound editing tools

2.8. Authoring tools

2.8.1. Card & Page-based Authoring tools

2.8.2. Icon & Object-based Authoring tools

2.8.3. Time-based Authoring tool

3. What You Need-The Intangibles

3.1. Creativity

3.2. Organization

3.3. Communication

4. What You Need-Multimedia Skills

4.1. Project Manager

4.2. Multimedia Designer

4.3. Interface Designer

4.4. Writer

4.5. Audio / Video Specialist

4.6. Multimedia Programmer

5. What You Need-Hardware

5.1. Production platforms

5.2. windows vs. Macintosh

5.3. Connections

5.4. IDE

5.5. USB

5.6. FireWire

5.7. Memory and storage devices

5.8. Input devices

5.9. Output devices